Tim Dettmers Argues Agents Should Automate Most Personal Work, Not Just Code

Tim Dettmers, a professor who has used Claude Code for eight months to automate his own work, argues that more than 90% of code and text should be written by agents. He says the coding-focused hype on Twitter overstates parallel sessions and autonomy, which translate poorly to most non-software tasks. The post offers a balanced guide to what actually works in agent-based automation.